Luisa Cottifogli : voice, project and music
Gian Luca Beccari : video and mixer-video
Franco Naddei : mixer audio


The show begins and end with a quote by Luigi Baldassarri:
"we just were making our way to the river
when as usual
grandma
noticed something
we didn’t take with us
and we had to
so we children
quickened our steps
as if we hadn’t heard
POOR OLD WOMAN
I live
this yellowed
photogram
of my childhood
over again
with the certainty
all the life like that
having the feeling of forgetting something
and in the same time quickening steps"
immagine
  f/Andrea Bernabini
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../ velocità di fuga (Escape velocity... )

“Velocità di fuga” is the necessary force to go through the world’s atmosphere. The title also recalls a musical form maybe a virtuosity (fuga in Italian also means fugue), or simply a life-instinct.
This project is a synaesthesia which tells about man’s ability in architectures and distructions, technology and eagerness for money, communication and thirst for power.
Sounds and images tell something about man, about his being and about his movement inside the time, from prehistory to computer age: ages which nowadays coexists.
Velocity is the characteristic of our age together with phrenitis of communication and the risk is forgetting our aims and our starting point: quickening our steps we loose ourselves in “velocity”.


Reviews

With her only voice she creates a rhythmical base and with her impressive vocal technique she makes up refined threads, sometimes scratching and biting, sometimes caressing and grazing...
L.C. has shown how one can join perfectly technique to creativeness, elegance to guts, ingenuity to passion, professional skill to heart. Avant-garde, experimental music which magically attracts even the least prepared audience. A performance you cannot forget... Gian Luca Barbieri - La Cronaca di Cremona

...the voice...powerful and dynamic, full of nuances which show her curiosity about worldwide musics; the use of a looper breaks up the voice in thousands of sound streams and repeats it in cyclic sequences enriching its timbrical variety. Velocità di fuga tells about man and his movement inside the time, it is an eventful journey in which different languages strengthen one each other, increasing the power of emotional communication. Vincenzo Roggero - La Provincia